I have an Acer Aspire 1681 laptop running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS with the
latest packages installed. I have never been able to get any
resolution beyond 1024x760. Does anyone have any info on getting higer
resolutions working?

Thanks,
Gary Whitten
[email]whitteng@NOSPAMcon2inc.com[/email]

09-30-2007, 05:30 PM

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Re: getting high resolution display on Acer Aspire 1681

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:57:30 -0800, whitteng wrote:
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> I have an Acer Aspire 1681 laptop running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS with the
> latest packages installed. I have never been able to get any
> resolution beyond 1024x760. Does anyone have any info on getting higer
> resolutions working?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary Whitten
> [email]whitteng@NOSPAMcon2inc.com[/email][/color]

What is the native resolution? I have a Gateway 305crv which would never
give me the 1024x768 that is native mode - only 800x600 - I finally bought
a proprietary package from XIG - it works with that - they have a free
demo download.

I would assume you have 1280x800 in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Have you
checked the xorg log in /var/log for information as to what is happening?

09-30-2007, 05:30 PM

unix

Re: getting high resolution display on Acer Aspire 1681

[email]whitteng@con2inc.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> I have an Acer Aspire 1681 laptop running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS with the
> latest packages installed. I have never been able to get any
> resolution beyond 1024x760. Does anyone have any info on getting higer
> resolutions working?[/color]

Is it an Intel 945GM graphics chip? Did you install the package
915resolution?

If you didn't, try:

[ ... ]# yum install 915resolution

and then reboot.

I saw that in a LinuxQuestions.org thread; tried it on mine (an
Acer Aspire 5580-6177), but it didn't work (see my thread, right
before yours in comp.os.linux.setup).

HTH,

Carlos
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09-30-2007, 05:30 PM

unix

Re: getting high resolution display on Acer Aspire 1681

In article <pan.2007.02.14.16.16.13.627315@zianet.com>,
ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:
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>I would assume you have 1280x800 in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.[/color]